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What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day. Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks?

What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day

It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. The Link Between Quietness And Productivity. Some of you may have tried to reach me this morning and found that I was unavailable.

The Link Between Quietness And Productivity

That’s because I was knee high in muck with my husband and some friends. We were out having what I call clamming wars, here on Cape Cod. I have to admit, my team was quite vocal everytime we scored a clam, which by my count was many. The other team raked for clams quietly in the distance. Is Your Leadership Showing? Most members of a team know when they’re doing their work well.

Is Your Leadership Showing?

They often have a particular area of expertise, and they have deadlines and deliverables. Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us - Tony McCaffrey. The most famous cognitive obstacle to innovation is functional fixedness — an idea first articulated in the 1930s by Karl Duncker — in which people tend to fixate on the common use of an object.

Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us - Tony McCaffrey

For example, the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have been their lifeboat. Newspapers from the time estimated the size of the iceberg to be between 50-100 feet high and 200-400 feet long. 9 keys to email etiquette. The 5 Whys - Video. Recruiting: 8 Qualities Your Best Employees Should Have. Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers... they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.

Recruiting: 8 Qualities Your Best Employees Should Have

A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance. Here are eight qualities of remarkable employees: 1. They ignore job descriptions. How to become a great communicator. When it comes to your career, there's no way to overstate the importance of your ability to communicate.

How to become a great communicator

It doesn't matter if you're in engineering, finance, HR, marketing, manufacturing or IT. How to Be a Great Storyteller and Win Over Any Audience. Last Updated Jan 12, 2011 11:31 AM EST It's hard to imagine your career going anywhere if you can't tell a story.

How to Be a Great Storyteller and Win Over Any Audience

7 things great employees do. COMMENTARY This definitely isn't the first time somebody's written about what makes employees special.

7 things great employees do

But it may very well be the first time someone's telling you what will genuinely get your management excited about you and ultimately get you promoted. No kidding. Look, you've got to understand the reality here.

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The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Time management. Integrity. How to Run a Successful Project. As described in the first article in this series, many projects fail because organizations put their practices before their people.

How to Run a Successful Project

This happens when organizations try to make an employee's human nature and emotional makeup fit their processes and policies. This traditional approach to project management emphasizes developing complex guidelines to manage projects across all phases -- from implementing phase reviews, performance metrics, and project steering committees to creating risk management dashboards. Are team members motivated to deliver results? When this happens, project managers become little more than bureaucrats who manage paperwork rather than projects, and teams may lose sight of the project's strategic purpose and objectives. Positive Intelligence. Artwork: Yue Minjun, Laughing Painter, 2003, oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm In July 2010 Burt’s Bees, a personal-care products company, was undergoing enormous change as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries.

Positive Intelligence

In this kind of high-pressure situation, many leaders pester their deputies with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent demands. In doing so, managers jack up everyone’s anxiety level, which activates the portion of the brain that processes threats—the amygdala—and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for effective problem solving. The 10 Questions You Need to Ask Daily to Find Success. Think that success means making lots of money? Think again. An Introvert's Guide to Networking. By Lisa Petrilli | 9:15 AM January 25, 2012.

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Be on time, every time: 6 simple tricks. Nobody likes to be late. The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer. By Anne Kreamer | 4:02 PM January 11, 2012 I’ve been a devoted, even fanatical reader of fiction my whole life, but sometimes I feel like I’m wasting time if I spend an evening immersed in Lee Child’s newest thriller, or re-reading The Great Gatsby. Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work - Sally Augustin. By Sally Augustin | 12:00 PM January 9, 2012 Is the space in which you work working for you? When you’re there do you feel energized and ready to excel? Is it a comfortable and pleasant place to be? If not, you can use research from a little known branch of psychology to improve it. Environmental psychologists study how people live in the physical world. 7 Things Highly Productive People Do. Get Ready for Your Next Assignment.

When Bruce Wilkinson, an executive in World Vision Inter­national’s Zambia operation, learned that he was going to be promoted to regional director for southern Africa, he immediately started reading performance reviews of key staff members and talking to his peers, other national officers in the $2.6 billion organization.

In doing so he uncovered a serious weakness: A host of critical positions in the region had gone unfilled for as long as 16 months, leading to lost contracts and deterioration in the programs WVI undertakes to empower poor communities. Human resources needed to step up its game. I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore. By Dan Pallotta | 10:57 AM December 5, 2011.

Managing the Boss

The John Maxwell Company. The following moral/ethical dilemma supposedly was included on an actual job application: Does Setting Major Development Goals Work? 12 Rules For Business Success. Last Updated Jun 30, 2011 8:39 PM EDT GoDaddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons has 16 rules for success in business and life in general. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Emailers. So, you're a manager now.